Message: "Sookie" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Sookie

by Melissa (telfalathiel)

2/2/2009, 11:58 PM

My roommate is thinking about using Sookie as a nn for a future daughter, but we are having a hard time coming up with fns for it. Any ideas? Thanks.

#Sookie

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- Isla +3

2/3/2009, 9:10 PM

I'm assuming she's a True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse fan, no? I have only heard this name once--on the main character in the Charlaine Harris books which is now a tv series on HBO. At first glance, it looks like Sue + Key, but it actually rhymes with "cookie" and "rookie". On the tv show, when some of the characters say the name (esp. with thick Louisiana accents), it sounds more like "Suckie", which is interesting, seeing as it's a show about vampires. :b I think it makes an ok nickname, preferably for a pet, though, and not a person. I think it makes a horrible given name for a person, just to go on the record. I will second (or third?) Susannah, as that's the only thing I can think of it could slightly be short for. And Sukie is a nn for it, I believe, so that's really not a big stretch after all.

- Melissa (telfalathiel) +2

2/3/2009, 11:33 PM

Yeah...she's a big True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse fan. She also wants to name another daughter Georgia nn either George or Georgie from Dead Like Me, which was another HBO series.

- Isla +1

2/4/2009, 10:41 AM

I liked Dead Like Me, too, but I think that was on Showtime.

- Melissa (telfalathiel)

2/4/2009, 11:44 AM

I have no idea, that's just what she told me.

- Bear +1

2/3/2009, 9:57 AM

Sookie is very cute. How about:

Saskia
Socorro
Cassia
Rusalka (Russian folk lore nymph)("roo-SAHL-kuh")
Roxane / Roxanne / Roxana
Roxelana
Ruxandra
Oksana
Zuleika ("zoo-LAY-kuh")
Mariska
Scholastica
Skye
Skylark
Anouk / Anoushka
Cosima
Jocasta
Cassandra
Pascale

I'd love to hear back from you or your friend if any of these could work for her. Thanks!

This message was edited 2/3/2009, 9:59 AM

- Melissa (telfalathiel)

2/3/2009, 11:14 AM

I gave the list to my roommate. The top contenders are Scholastica, Jocasta, and Pascale. She also likes Susannah.

- Andromache (Hannah Ruth)

2/3/2009, 1:55 AM

Susannah?

Susan, Suzanne.. etc.

- LMS +1

2/3/2009, 12:13 AM

Well, it is originally a diminutive for Susannah, so I think that should be your first suspect. Some alternates:

Shoshana
Susan

This message was edited 2/3/2009, 12:13 AM

- Melissa (telfalathiel)

2/3/2009, 11:16 AM

For some reason, I didn't know it was a diminutive of Susannah. She likes that a lot. The other name she has picked out for a girl is Georgia. She said that Susannah nn Sookie and Georgia nn Georgie would be a wonderful sibset. I tend to agree with her on that.

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